Mind map your app

My talk from the NSBudapest meetup, held as part of Craft Conf 2018, on May 10th.

A version with presenter notes embedded is here: https://speakerdeck.com/radianttap/mind-map-your-app-with-notes

It's a short dive into a proper use of Coordinators and Layers architecture to really separate View Controllers into manageable, isolated units.

Transcript

1. M I N D - M A P Y O U R A P P A l e k s a n d a r Va c i ć @radiantav C R A F T 2 0 1 8 · N S B u d a p e s t
2. App starts with an idea. A business plan would help too, but let’s not digress too much.
7. UI / UX is done. The only thing left: code
9. Code is done. Really..?
11. HomeController ProductDetailsController ProductsController
13. Architecture of complex apps is ever evolving, quite often in unforseen ways.
14. – M A R T I N F O W L E R “Architectural refactoring is hard, and we’re still ignorant of its full costs, but it isn’t impossible.” Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
16. O N I O N Your app needs to be an (Psst - I know this is garlic, but bear with me)
17. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage
18. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage UI
19. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage UI
20. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage UI
21. N O T M Y FA U LT … H O N E S T !
22. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage UI
23. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage UI
24. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage UI UI Coordinators
25. Data Delivery Data Source Data Storage UI UI Coordinators Middleware
26. If you manage to separate all this, then you don’t need colored post-it notes. You can mind-map in code, no intermediary prototyping tools required. Code Mapping, enabled by…
27. L AY E R S A R C H I T E C T U R E
28. • Coordinator
 Swift implementation of Coordinator pattern, with several advanced features • Swift-Network
 Thin URLSession wrapper which allow seamless usage with Operation and OperationQueue • Swift-Essentials
 Various useful extensions, particularly AsyncOperation subclass of Operation github.com/radianttap
29. Let’s demo this approach by code- mapping a bespoke Spotify app… in 15-ish minutes ! " #$
30. Aleksandar Vacić radianttap.com Follow me as @radiantav on Twitter. Read my iOS dev blog at aplus.rs. Use my open source stuff on GitHub.com/radianttap. Photos (from Unsplash) by • delfi de la Rua • Otto Norin • Mike Kenneally